Re: [feature] automatically detect hung TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks

[Andi Kleen]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 02:55:47PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I would still appreciate if you could state what default value you 
> > plan to set the backtrace sysctl to in the submitted patch.
> 
> there's no "backtrace sysctl" planned for the moment. This "hung tasks" 

I hope you'll reconsider that at least before submitting 
this patch to mainline. For -mm it's probably ok.

> debugging feature can be disabled/enabled on a wide scale already:
> 
>  - in the .config
> 
>  - runtime, temporarily, via:
> 
>      echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs

That won't address my concerns about already "breaking" (as in 
frightening the user etc.) common error handling scenarios by default.

-Andi

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